Relational and Integrative Psychotherapy

A 5-day Experiential Workshop : Thursday, January 25th to Monday, January 29th, 2018

Madrid, Spain

This five-day experiential workshop will focus on the centrality of the therapeutic relationship while emphasizing the in-depth methods of a psychotherapy that integrates the client’s affect, cognition, physiology and behaviour. The themes of this workshop may include life scripts, unconscious pre-reflective patterns, non-verbal communication, introjection and physiological survival reactions. Various methods of working within an involved therapeutic relationship, supportive regression, and/or a caring body therapy will be taught and demonstrated.

This experiential workshop is for mental health professionals who want to apply theory in clinical practice and to enhance their effectiveness through identifying aspects of their own contact interruption, life script, and countertransference. Dr. Erskine will do live therapy with some of the members of the group. He will then discuss the theory and methods used in the live therapy.

To have a thorough understanding of the concepts that will be used in this workshop it is recommended that you read Beyond Empathy: A Therapy of Contact in Relationship by Richard Erskine, Janet Moursund, and Rebecca Trautmann and Integrative Psychotherapy in Action by Richard Erskine and Janet Moursund.